Auset - Isis - Goddess
Au Set - Whom the Greeks called Isis - Oldest of the Old, from Whom all things arose, Eternal Savoir of the race of men.
She was the Egyptian throne, the pharaohs sat on her lap, protected by Her arms or wings. She was worshipped throughout the Greco-Roman world as well as in Egypt where She was known as Au Set.
Lady of the Moon, Mother of the Crops. Offerings of baskets of grain, guarded by sacred serpent. Swallow was sacred to Her. Sycamore Her sacred tree. Bloodstone and turquoise Her sacred stones.
Exceeding Queen. Tamarisk tree, Water lily sacred to Her. The One Who is All held dominion over life and death, marriage, healing, handicrafts and writing, fertility and immortality. Daughter of Nut, the Sky and Geb, the Earth, She was born in the swamp land of the Nile.
The ankh is the symbol of the union of AuSet (Isis) and Osiris. Her wings and solar disc nestled between lunar bovine horns denotes Her protection of the Pharaohs (the male spirit) and Her promise of rebirth.
Known to us primarily from her depictions in the famous tomb of Tutankamun, Isis' (pronounced EYE-sis) name means "The Throne" and every Egyptian pharoah claimed the right to rule as a son or daughter of Isis. Her Egyptian name was "Auset", but the Greek and Roman "mystery religions" revered her as Isis.
She was revered as the greatest and most beloved of all the Egyptian goddesses. Her symbol, the star Sirius, signaled the commencement of the Nile flood when it rose with the sun (the "heliacal rising") each year in early summer.
Isis was both a celestial and terrestrial goddess, and she absorbed many of the qualities of the more ancient Het-Hert (Hathor), while acquiring her own unique history. She is the goddess of family love, loyalty, all feminine principles and, like the more ancient Het-Hert, of magic and creativity.
The legend of Isis and her husband Osiris (or, in Egyptian, Ausar) is one of the greatest love stories ever told. Since it was customary for Egyptian royalty to marry within the immediate family whenever possible, so it was in their gods.
Thus, Osiris was married to his sister Isis, and their brother Seth was married to their sister Nepthys (in Egyptian, Nebt-Het). Because she was unable to bear children with Seth, Nepthys tricked Osiris into sleeping with her. When Nephthys' husband Seth discovered this treachery, he attacked Osiris and chopped him into pieces, hiding the body parts all over the world so that they could not be reassembled.
Isis searched the entire world to find her husband's dismembered pieces--then she magically resurrected him. The child of her magical union with Osiris was Horus, who is usually depicted as a hawk-headed god.
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